Pin-ticket-attaching device.



M. 0. ANTHONY & e. A. WALLIN.

PIN TICKET ATTACHING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 14. 1915.

Patented Jan. 22, 1918.

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MARCUS O. ANTHONY, OF ENGLEWOOD, AND GUSTAF A. WALLIN, 0F SCOTCH PLAINS, NEW JERSEY, ASSIG-NORS TO A. KIMBALL COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A COR- PORATION OF NEW YORK.

PIN-TICKET-ATTACHING DEVICE.

Specification 0! Letters Patent- T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MARCUS O. ANTHONY, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Englewood, county of Bergen, State of New Jersey, and GUSTAF A. WALLIN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Scotch Plains, county of Union, State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in Pin-Ticket-Attaching Devices, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like characters on the drawing representing like parts.

This invention relates to improvements in implements for attaching pin tickets to fabrics and other lines of merchandise.

The usual form of pin ticket comprises a card a having a staple afiixed thereto, the shanks b and 0 of the staple extending in parallelism at right angles to the under surface of the card. In affixing such tickets to merchandise the shanks of the staple are passed through the merchandise and are bent laterally until they lie against the surface thereof, the ends being preferably bent farther down toward the back of the card so that the points will not engage other goods; These pin tickets are usually applied by girls, and in bending the shanks of the staple their fingers are roughened and sometimes lacerated by continuous contact with the sharp edges or burred points of the staples which are generally used in pin tickets, in which the points are formed by severing the Wire at an acute angle to its axis, so that it is desirable to have mechanical means for engaging, separating and clenching the staples. Certain types of apparatus have heretofore been constructed for this purpose but such apparatus is ordinarily in the form of permanently located machines to which the merchandise must be brought in order to afiix the pin tickets thereto. This of course is not only inconvenient but occasions loss of time.

One of the objects of the present invention therefore is to provide an implement which can be readily carried by the operator and used to aflix the pin tickets to the merchandise.

Another serious objection to the use of machines for affixing tickets resides in the fact that the staples of the pin tickets are formed with cut points which frequently have sharp edges or burs or are blunted so that when they penetrate the fabric the burs or rough ends will snag or cut the material. In such case it is undesirable to force the pin through the goods. In machine work, of course, no discrimination is made between perfect and imperfect pin tickets and goods are frequently damaged by the application of these defective pin points.

A desirable feature of the present invention is that in utilizing the implement forming thesubject matter of this invention, pin

tickets are inserted in the usual manner and if the operator finds a bur upon the pin or any other obstruction which makes it difficult to thrust the pin through the goods the ticket may be discarded and damage to the goods avoided.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of the character above described which will force the shanks of the tickets more firmly against the merchandise to which the ticket is applied than is usually done'by hand so that the points of the staple will be prevented from snagging other folds of the same fabric or other merchandise which may come in contact with the pin ticket.

A preferred form of the invention is disclosed in the accompanying drawings in which,

Figure 1 is an enlarged front elevation of the pin ticket clenching implement carried by the finger of an operator and in normal position and engaging the ends of a pin ticket about to be affixed,

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the device when forced downwardly by the finger of the operator so as to separate and clench the shanks of the staple upon the fabric,

Fig. 3 is an enlarged side elevation of the device engaging the pins of the staple and showing the groove which directs the shank of the staple as it is being clenched,

Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view of the device,

Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view through one of the clenching members, and,

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a pin ticket of the usual type.

As illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing the implement for clenching the pin tickets is shown as applied to the finger of an operator, the pin ticket resting upon Patented J an. 22, 1918.

the surface of a table. In Fig. 1 the device is shown as approaching the pin ticket and in Fig. 2 after the same has been thr'ust ticket clenching implement in connection,

with a table are merely for the purpose of illustrating the extent of movement of the clenching members relatively to the plane of the ticket since it Will. be readily understood that in ordinar use the pin ticket and merchandise will be supported by the finger 'ofjthe operator rather than by a table or other rig-id support, although it is perfectly feasible to attach tickets in the manner illustrated. V

The preferred embodiment of the inven tion disclosed in the drawing" comprises a supporting member 1 which preferably is in the form of a thimble adapted to be Worn upon the finger of the operator and apair of clenching members 2--3 flexibly connected, preferably by a hinge &. The clenching members are supported upon. the thimble by arms 5 and 6 Which pass through suitable guides 7 and are connected at their ends to the thimble by hinges S. The arms are flexibly connected at their lower ends to the backs of the clenching members in any suitable inan'ner.

These clenching members may conveniently be constructed of two similar plates 10 having complementary hinge portions 11.11 at their adjacent ends and. an upwardly bent rib 12 adapted to receive the pintle 13 extending through eyes 14 in a yoke shaped end 15 ofthe arms 56, the front of the clenching members consists of an attached plate 16 having a groove 17 converging outwardly from the hinge 4. Springs 18 preferably surrounding the pintles 13 of the hinges 9 and having ends engaging respectively the rear faces of the clenching members and the inner faces of the arms 5- 6 serve normally to maintain the clenching members in contracted position, in which they are disposed in angular relation to one another so as to present an apex adapted to be thrust between the shanks of the staple of the pin ticket.

Since the shank engaging plate 16 is provided with a groove 17 converging upwardly from the hinge & the ends of the shanks will be guided in opposite directions and the bent shanks of the pin will lie substantially parallel :to the upper edge of the ticket. By thus bending the shanks uniformly there is no danger of the sharp point projecting beyond the end of the pin ticket in such a manner as to engage other merghandise or to scratch those handling the goo s.

In the operation of the device the staple ofthe pin ticket is passed through the goods by the operator and the clenching implement'is then projected between the points of the staple of the pin ticket in the manner illustrated in Fig. 1-, the convergi-ng-ends of the clenching members Q'and 8' being thrust between the slianks b and c so-"that the pins of ,the staple enter the guiding grooves 14, the operator then presses down uponthe thimble causing the shanks band 0 to be separated. lVhen the hinge dabuts against the merchandise which lies upon the reverse face of the card a the shanks spread as further pressure is applied by the finger of the operator untilthe faces 16 of the clenching members are in'the same plane. Further pressure upon the clenching members changes the fulcrum of the clenching members from the hinge 1 to the angularly bent portions .15 of the staple, resulting in the forcing of theends of the staplefirmly against the face of'the fabric to Which the pm ticket is being attached, as clearly illustrat'ed in Fig. By thuschanging the fulcrum of the 'clenchin members from the hinge to the bent portion 15of thestaple rather than by curving the clenching members-the pressure of the clenchingmem hers is applied to the'body of the staple and not to the extreme point so that the danger of bending thepoint into the form of a hook Which-would snag or cut the fabric upon Withdrawal of the pin is avoided.

. lVhile' We have illustrated the invention as comprising a" thimble adapted to be applied to the finger of the operator it Will be obvious that other forms of supporting members may be used and that various modifications in construction ofxthe-device may bemade, and that the same may be adapted for other uses Within the spirit and scope of the following claims. r f:

what We claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: i p

1. A device of the class described-comprising a supporting member, a pair ,of

flexibly connected clenching members, and

pand said clenching mem ers to thesame plane and by continued pressure. to reverse the angularrelation therebetiveen. I

3. A device for clenching the staples of 105 ,Having .thus described our invention pin tickets comprising a thimble, a pair of flexibly connected clenching members, an means connecting said thimble and clenching members and operable to expand said clenching members upon engagement of the latter With the shanks of the staples.

sl. A device for clenching the staples of pin tickets comprising a thimble, a pair of clenching members having converging guiding grooves extending upwardly from said hinge, and spring actuated means connecting said thimble and said clenching members adapted normally to maintain the clenching members in contracted angular relation to each other and operable by pressure upon said thimble to expand said clenching member's upon engagement of the latter with the shanks of the staple.

5. Adevice for clenching the staples of pin tickets consisting of a finger thimble, a pair of flexibly connected clenching members, oppositely disposed arms hinged to said thim- [01c and said clenching members, and springs carried by the hinges connecting the arms to the clenching members adapted normally to 23 retain the clenching members in contracted angular relation to each other so as to present diverging staple engaging surfaces, whereby pressure applied to the thimble upon engagement of said clenching members With the shanks of the staple will cause first expansion of the clenching members and thereafter reversal of the angular relation of the same to press the ends of the staple firmly against the article to which the Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner 'of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

